Converter: C struct to JAVA class

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From: Michael Wiedmann

Date: Friday, May 25, 2007

Any hint for a tool

1. <tool> A program used primarily to create, manipulate,
	modify, or analyse other programs, such as a compiler or an
	editor or a cross-referencing program.  Opposite: {app},
	{operating system}.

	2. A {Unix} {application program} with a simple, "transparent"
	(typically text-stream) interface designed specifically to be
	used in programmed combination with other tools (see {filter},
	{plumbing}).

	3. <jargon> ({MIT}: general to students there) To work; to
	study (connotes tedium).  The {TMRC} Dictionary defined this
	as "to set one's brain to the grindstone".  See {hack}.

	4. <jargon, person> ({MIT}) A student who studies too much and
	hacks too little.  MIT's student humour magazine rejoices in
	the name "Tool and Die".

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1996-12-12)

which'd it make easy to convert automatically a
whole bunch of C structs to JAVA classes?

TIA
Michael

From: Ira Baxter

Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2007

wrote in message

Any hint for a tool which'd it make easy to convert automatically a
whole bunch of C structs to JAVA classes?

You need a full C parser

<language> An {algorithm} or program to determine the
	syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some
	language.  A parser normally takes as input a sequence of
	{tokens} output by a {lexical analyser}.  It may produce some
	kind of {abstract syntax tree} as output.  One of the best
	known {parser generators} is {yacc}.

	(1997-07-21)

with name and type

<theory, programming> (Or "data type") A set of values from
	which a {variable}, {constant}, {function}, or other
	{expression} may take its value.  A type is a classification
	of data that tells the {compiler} or {interpreter} how the
	programmer intends to use it.  For example, the process and
	result of adding two variables differs greatly according to
	whether they are integers, floating point numbers, or strings.

	Types supported by most programming languages include
	{integers} (usually limited to some range so they will fit in
	one {word} of storage), {Booleans}, {floating point numbers},
	and characters.  {Strings} are also common, and are
	represented as {lists} of characters in some languages.

	If s and t are types, then so is s -> t, the type of
	{functions} from s to t; that is, give them a term of type s,
	functions of type s -> t will return a term of type t.

	Some types are {primitive} - built-in to the language, with no
	visible internal structure - e.g. Boolean; others are
	composite - constructed from one or more other types (of
	either kind) - e.g. {lists}, {arrays}, {structures}, {unions}.
	{Object-oriented programming} extends this with {classes}
	which encapsulate both the structure of a type and the
	operations that can be performed on it.

	Some languages provide {strong typing}, others allow {implicit
	type conversion} and/or {explicit type conversion}.

	(2003-12-22)

resolution,
and the ability to generate

To produce something according to an {algorithm} or program or
	set of rules, or as a (possibly unintended) {side effect} of
	the execution of an algorithm or program.

	The opposite of {parse}.

	[{Jargon File}]

	(1995-06-15)

JAVA code

<software> Instructions for a computer in some programming
	language, often {machine language}.  The word "code" is often
	used to distinguish instructions from {data} (e.g. "The code
	is marked 'read-only'") whereas "{software}" is used in
	contrast with "{hardware}" and may consist of more than just
	code.

	(2000-04-08)

from same.

See http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/FrontEnds/CFrontEnd.html
for an appropriate parser, and the related discussion on the underlying
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit.

Contact me offline for any further discussion.

--
Ira Baxter, CTO
www.semanticdesigns.com

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